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MIGAL
– Galilee technological Center is one of the branches of
the Company for the Development of the Galilee (CDG). CDG is
owned by 52 villages (in fact a big cooperative) and deals with
many branches such as: packing houses for fruits and vegetables,
petrol stations, transport firm with dozens of full trailer
trucks, school buses, cold storage house and many more. All
branches makes money and operate as business. MIGAL (and Northern
R&D in it) operates as research institute.
The
exporting company of the Galilee Development Company has offices
all over Europe together with cold storage, packing houses ect.
The different branches sales locally in the target country via
networks, big shops, big companies like TESCO, AUCHAN or
McDonalds and others. All branches in the different countries
make sure to have enough orders all year long so they can ask the
parent company in Israel to provide them with the required volume
of products in a specific quality and specifications. Based on
the information here, the company here starts signing contracts
with farmers to provide the demand. Agrexco has big deals with
international networks that do not want any labels on the
products. They care of the volume, the quality (specifications)
and price. This big networks repack the all thing in big
warehouses they maintain in big airports in Europe. Since the
product is fresh, the networks are very efficient in moving
things from one place to the other. Sometimes a cargo is being
sold while it is still on the way. The consumer in Europe wants a
variety of agricultural products all year round. As long as the
product of high quality (quality means not only taste, color,
shape ect but also strict control over chemical residuals) and a
competitive price).
MIGAL – Galilee technological
Center is specialized in life, natural, agricultural and
environmental research. MIGAL consists of 15 research groups
operating in 3500 m2 state-of-the-art laboratories and
9 experimental field stations. Migal has about 140 scientific
staff including 30 senior researchers. All researchers also serve
as professors and senior lecturers in the department of
Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences of Tel-Hai Academic
College. MIGAL is equipped with all the necessary laboratory
equipment that can handle all the analyses required for
successful implementation of the project. Specifically, we have
extensive experience with the analyses of P in various matrices
found in the environment as well as complex matrices required for
fractionation, sorption and availability experiments.
During
the last six years this Partner is pursuing active research on
the availability, biogeochemistry and fate and transport of P in
organic and inorganic soils. They research encompasses various
scales from whole region through field plots, lysimeter to
microcosmos experiments. They ability to work in various research
scales is the most significant attribute of our team that can be
utilized in other areas outside Mediterranean conditions. They
field area is the Hula Valley that exhibits extensive
agricultural activity as well as recent implementation of land
use change from agriculture to re-wetting of a former wetland.
The factors and processes that affecting the physico-chemical
behaviour of P in altered wetland is the central theme of their
FP-5 project called PROWATER. MIGAL has a good knowledge and long
experience in the filed of project dissemination.
It is a
common practice of the MIGAL to distribute new technologies and
know how through "model farms", "open days"
for farmers in the research stations and demonstration in the
farmers's plots. The MIGAL keeps close working relations with the
farmers community in the area. Farmers are also encouraged to
participate in the discussions held every new year in relation
with the annual work plan. The total activity is based on ten
different research groups that form an annual work plan that its
objectives directed towards the agricultural needs of the
farmers.
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